Agenda Day 1

Labs are drowning in data, and despite years of discussion, most remains siloed, inconsistent, or inaccessible. This panel explores real-world strategies for making lab data searchable, shareable, and ready for reuse, helping organizations unlock the value hidden in their experiments and workflows.

Join this session to learn how peers are tackling fragmented and siloed lab data to enable faster decision-making including:

- Discover approaches to standardise and harmonise data across multiple instruments, systems, and sites.

- Understand practical methods to boost usability and accessibility so scientists can extract actionable insights.

- Hear lessons on avoiding common pitfalls in data management and accelerating AI readiness. 

Maryam Momtaz

Head of Specialty Polymers R&I Excellence and Transformation
Syensqo

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CK Ong

Director Data Product
GSK

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The pharmaceutical industry is accelerating toward an era of AI-augmented and self-driving laboratories, where human expertise is amplified by intelligent automation and data-driven orchestration. Yet the success of this transformation depends on a critical foundation: AI-ready, interoperable data.

In this joint presentation, SciY and NovAliX share how digitalization platforms, automation, and applied AI are converging to reshape experimental design, process optimization, and manufacturing. Real-world examples, from reaction screening and structure verification to AI-piloted continuous manufacturing (PIPAc), will illustrate how FAIR data principles, semantic standardization, and orchestration across instruments, robotics, and enterprise systems unlock new levels of scientific efficiency and agility.

Key discussion points include:

• Designing a robust data strategy that bridges discovery, development, and manufacturing.

• Implementing closed-loop experimentation and real-time process optimization through intelligent orchestration layers.

• Demonstrating AI agents trained in digital twins to autonomously adjust reaction conditions for yield and safety.

• Empowering scientists as AI-augmented decision-makers in a connected ecosystem spanning CROs, CDMOs, and internal labs.

Together, SciY and NovAliX will showcase how collaborative innovation and vendor-agnostic digital infrastructure are making the vision of truly smart, data-driven laboratories a practical reality today.

Sponsored by: SciY

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Anna Codina

Senior Director Strategy & Business Development
SciY

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Julien Marin

SVP, Chief Operating Officer
Novalix

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During this presentation we will discuss:

• FAIRifying Skin Microbiome Research: Exploring an experimental data case study for knowledge generation in skin microbiome studies.
• Addressing Microbiome Data Challenges: Understanding the complexities and heterogeneity in skin microbiome data, including large volumes, metadata standardization, and privacy concerns.
• Harmonizing Microbiome Data Generation: Highlighting the critical need to harmonize sequencing platforms, pipelines, and methods to produce FAIR skin microbiome data.
• L'Oréal's Robust Strategy: Detailing L'Oréal's proactive approach to FAIR microbiome data generation, covering robust planning, data management, internal collaboration, and quality consistency. 

Ahmad Khodr

Head of Microbiology Innovation Laboratory
L'Oreal

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Traditional Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) have long served as the lab’s digital backbone, but a new wave of innovation is transforming what’s possible. We are entering an era where intelligent LIMS converge with Agentic AI to create not just automated laboratories – but autonomous, intelligent ones. These next-generation systems can interpret data in real-time, adapt dynamically, and offer actionable insights at high speed.

Join us to learn:

• What is Agentic AI and why your lab can’t afford to ignore it
• What is the application of Agentic AI
• How to leverage AI-driven actions without compromising data integrity

Sponsored by: LabVantage

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Michiel Houbraken

Sales Manager, Benelux
LabVantage Solutions

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No matter your industry, laboratories will only be able to realize AI’s potential if the data and the organization is ready. This includes properly structured, validated, and contextualized data as well as building the tools, processes and skill sets to leverage it. Join Erik Vernet during this keynote to explore how to work with these concepts and leverage multi-agent frameworks to build trustworthy AI pipelines. 

• What does AI-Readiness actually mean? 
• How can labs apply objective quality checks, validation steps, and multi-agent cross-referencing to improve reliability? 
• What does Machine Learning, Generative and Agentic AI tools look like and bring of value along the Design-Make-Test-Analyse cycle?  

Erik Vernet

Senior Director - Nonclinical Data Automation
Novo Nordisk

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The Pistoia Alliance’s CMC Process Ontology project is driving pre-competitive collaboration to standardize how pharmaceutical processes are digitally represented. This panel explores how shared data definitions and ontologies can accelerate technology transfer, improve reproducibility, and foster innovation—not just in R&D, but across quality, manufacturing, and compliance functions.

• Reduce Operational Silos: Learn how a common ontology can align multiple departments, creating consistent data definitions across labs, manufacturing, and quality functions.
• Facilitate Technology Transfer: Understand how standardization enables faster, more reliable digital transfers between sites and external partners.
• Support Compliance & Analytics: See how structured process data can improve traceability, reporting, and preparation for advanced analytics or AI applications. 

Birthe Nielsen

Project Manager
Pistoia Alliance

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Matthew Walker

Associate Principal Scientist – IT/OT Lead
AstraZeneca

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• Optimising workflows with next-generation software and digital tools to enhance collaboration and accelerate research outcomes
• Leveraging AI, machine learning, and robotic automation to improve operational efficiency, data quality, and reproducibility
• Integrating laboratory systems and platforms for a unified, scalable, and agile environment
• Ensuring consistent quality and compliance while reducing errors and freeing scientists to focus on high-value tasks 

Sponsored by: Thermo Fisher Scientific

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• Discover our strategy to structure our critical CMC data and move towards real-world AI applications that drive scientific and operational value.
• Get insight into our journey of learning by experience with practical AI case studies that exemplify the barriers we face & how we are driving impact.